Dear Sir/Madam/Mr/Mrs/Master/Miss Cast your mind back if you will to the heady days of the late 1980’s. Y.U.P.P.I.E’s with Porches, Motorola ‘Brick’ Phones, dubious braces and extensive out-of-control expense accounts. Well, when that was all happening I was an 18 year old sitting in a dark air-conditioned studio for the Presentation Company, the UK’s biggest and most technologically advanced speaker support provider. My fresh face illuminated by the eerie glow of my pre-Windows computer and experiencing none of the excessive madness I referred to above. I was busy working my non-gartered socks off creating beautiful 264 colour speaker-support for the likes of McKinsey, Gartner, DHL, The Post Office, Barings and other fine city institutions some of which are sadly no longer with us (no reflection on the work I had created for them I assure you). Now let’s fast forward to the 90’s. The porches have been replaced with Vespa’s the ‘Bricks’ with the amazing Nokia 5210 with a calculator AND a currency converter (even though they didn’t work outside of the UK). I’m now in a trendy open plan studio with natural light and a time consuming coffee machine in Covent Garden working for a digital agency named thinc! (yes the exclamation mark was part of the branding. I’m still creating speaker-support but utilising, Flash, Director, Photoshop, Illustrator and PowerPoint. I have 16.4 million colours to play with and the possibilities are endless, so it seems are the hours. Driven by ‘real’ coffee and my new position as Senior New Media Designer and later Assistant Creative Director my career is blossoming and my work for EGG, HP, L&G 3i and others is setting new standards in on-screen design and interaction. If at this point we listen carefully we can hear a bubble ‘pop’ as did the Agency. With companies slashing their budgets and laying off staff for the first time in my chosen career work is becoming as thin on the ground as a Windows machine that doesn’t blue screen at the most critical point in an animation render. New-Media it seems has become Old-Hat and with the World Wide Web in its early stages I receive a call from an old colleague offering me a position in the exciting world of Live Events. Soon I’m flying in private Lear jets around the globe with Mercedes-Benz, Deloitte, Renault, Credit Suisse to name but a few, revealing cars from revolving stages accompanied by the London Philharmonic and erecting tents in the desert with lions and lasers. I am still sitting in the dark I might add but this time I’m dressed in show-blacks, waiting for the show-caller to give the GO for the show to begin. I have a Nokia communicator and a bank of laptops and am feeling part Cyborg. Good times. (Incidentally on other shows I’m in a Holiday Inn just of the M4 programming PowerPoint charts late into the night and on occasion into the early hours) life isn’t always as good. It’s now 2011 and I’m back into the light creating dazzling, engaging and beautifully designed PowerPoint and Flash modules for live events and pitches for the likes of Barclays Wealth, BP, HSBC, Pfizer, Novartis, Sony, Sanofi-Aventis, LG, Microsoft, Sony Ericsson and Hill and Knowlton the world’s largest PR company. I’ve been doing this for 21 years now and still give 100% of my experience and professionalism to every client on every job. The lions have pretty much gone and the Lear Jets have been replaced by EasyJet but I still love my work. And I’m looking for more… I think outside the box, inside the box and all around the box, I’m a blue-skies thinker and a ‘real’ coffee drinker, a problem solver and a design revolver. This is the part of the story where I hope you can play a part in the extraordinary adventure that is my career. I can design in PowerPoint, Flash and Prezi, re-touch in Photoshop, draw in illustrator, and have a thirst for learning new packages and working with new clients and look forward to what the rest of the decade brings. I hope that we can work together to communicate your ideas and visions to your audience. Could have been sent from my IPhone… (oh yes, good times). Marcus Zeth Kelly 07850 245 281 Marcuskelly@me.com

Employment History:

1986-1987 Olympia & York Marketing Assistant London

Design and production of 35mm slides and supporting materials for the internal marketing department. O&M were responsible for the construction and development of Canary Wharf.

1987-1990 The Presentation Company (London) Junior Designer/Senior Designer London

Responsible for storyboarding, design and production of 35mm slides for the countries leading presentation specialist. I progressed to the position of senior designer running a studio of 5 designers within 3 years. Winner of ‘Best presentation’ at the Agfa Imaging Awards 1989.

1990-1992 The Presentation Company (Brussels) Creative Director Belgium

The company had decided to expand into continental Europe to better serve our clients European offices. I was employed as Creative Director and relocated to Brussels and had sole responsibility for all creative output of the company.

1992-1995 Talking Presentations Ltd. Senior Designer London

One of two senior designers, using the Cadsoft graphics system I produced a range of multimedia modules as well as corporate videos using Adobe Premiere video editing software.

1995-2000 Freelance Graphic Designer Global

2000-2004 Thinc! Digital Media Senior Designer/Assistant Creative Director

Thinc! was one of London’s New-Media pioneers. Employed initially to assist the Creative Director in all aspects of the design and production of various multi-media projects to include CDROM, Banner adverts, Flash modules and Website design. Responsible for the running of the studio and directed 5 designers and 3 web programmers and was the creative link between the account directors and the studio.

2004-2011 Freelance Graphic Designer Global

Since going freelance a second time in 2004 it has been the most productive and formative period in my career. The client list is endless but is all FTSE 100. Financial, Pharmaceutical and Electronic. Using PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Premiere, Final Cut, InDesign and a combination of them all my work looks professional and visually exciting whilst always meeting the core requirement to communicate the message effectively to the intended audience. I have pretty much covered all types of media both below and above the line. Designed and ran 100’s of live events from car launches to awards dinners, product launches to corporate meetings and never have been given a challenge I cannot meet. I’m at my prime, my experience now runs at over 22 years and my finger is still very much on the pulse.

Going forward I’m looking for work, lots of it. I will consider all proposals as I need to be busy, I need to be busier and I hope to meet new challenges and find new solutions and ‘make your messages visible’.

With this in mind and to discuss future business please contact me on any of the contact details supplied.

Marcus Zeth Kelly 07850 245 281 Marcuskelly@me.com